Cigarette extinguisher



Dec. 20, 1960 SCHLATTERER 2,965,108

CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Filed Oct. 16, 1958 IN V EN TOR.

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ATTORNEYS United States Patent "cc 2,965,108 CIGARETTE nxrmotnsrmn Max A. Schlatterer, no. B0. 5693, Cleveland, Ohio Filed on. 16, 1958, Ser. No. 767,586 3 Claims. or. 131-256) This invention relates to a portable cigarette holding and extinguishing device and more particularly to a cigarette holder and extinguisher of the type which may be aflixed to and carried about upon the outer wearing apparel of a person.

It is an object 'of this invention to provide a cigarette extinguisher readily adaptable for outdoor wear in places such as farms, forests, camps or the like where there is great danger of loss of life as a result of fire from unextinguished cigarettes or the like.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of a cigarette extinguisher adaptable to be clipped upon an outer garment such as a belt or on a shirt pocket of a persons wearing apparel.

Another object of this invention is to provide a cigarette extinguisher as above described and which includes a helically wound part of heat conducting material having a partially cylindrical and a partially conical configuration and wherein said material has such flexible characteristics as to permit said part to be readily attached to an outer garment on the person of a user.

Another object of this invention is to provide a cigarette extinguisher as above referred to and which in cludes a helically wound spring of heat conducting material especially wound to provide air space between adjoining convolutions such that a maximum ventilation of the metal is effected to insure maximum speed in the transference of heat from metal to ventilating air during the extinguishment of a cigarette.

Still another object of this invention is to provide a cigarette extinguisher which has a helically wound clip part formed with substantially mating convolutions which threadably engage with the helically Wound convolutions of a cylindrically and conically shaped socket the latter defining an extinguishing chamber, to thereby unite the aforementioned parts in a single flexible unit which in turn, may be readily attached to an outer garment on the person of a user.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will be realized by one skilled in the art to which it pertains upon reference to the following disclosure of a preferred embodiment and to the accompanying drawings of which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a cigarette extinguisher embodying the present invention and shows the same clipped to a trouser belt or the like.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the cigarette extinguisher of Fig. 1, and shows the manner in which the trouser belt is passed around the extinguisher.

Fig. 3 is a front elevational view of the cigarette extinguisher per se;

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of the extinguisher of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of the cigarette extinguisher showing the helically wound, substantially cylindrical socket portion of the same defining an extinguishing chamber being inserted into a pocket of a garment.

Fig. 6 is an elevational view which shows the cig- H 2,965,108 Patented Dec. 20, 1960 arette extinguisher fully inserted into the pocket of a garment.

Fig. 7 is a front elevational view of the clip part of the instant cigarette extinguisher; and

Fig. 8 is an elevational view of the socket portion of the cigarette extinguisher.

Before the apparatus herein illustrated is specifically described, it is understood that the'i'nvention here involved is not limited to the structural details'or arrangement of parts here shown since an apparatus or structure embodying the present invention may take various forms. It is also to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein is for purposes of description and not of limitation since the scope of the present invention is denoted in the appended claims.

As may be seen in the drawings, the form of cigarette extinguisher herein shown includes a clip part 10 which preferably consists of a continuous piece of stiff metallic wire having a helically wound body portion 11 provided with depending legs 12. Said legs are shown to be integrally attached to the opposed ends of the aforesaid body portion 11 and depend therefrom in diametrical spaced relation to each other. Each leg has a struck up end 13 provided to catch or otherwise hold 'a belt 14 (as seen in Fig. 1) or pocket material 18 (as seen in Fig. 6) between the legs 12 of the clip 10 and a helically wound body member of the cigarette extinguisher now to be described.

As best seen in Fig. 8, the instant cigarette extinguisher also includes a socket member 15 formed of a continuous length of high heat conductive metal, helically Wound to preferably form adjoining cylindrical and conical-shaped portions 16 and 17, respectively. Said adjoining socket portions 16 and 17 are preferably of such dimension as to define atn extinguishing chamber 19 therein, as seen in Fig. 2, into which the lighted end of a cigarette or the like, as is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 by the reference character C, is disposed and thereby extinguished. The adjoining convolutions of the socket member 15 are preferably spaced slightly apart to provide an air space therebetween, as indicated at 20 in Fig. 8, whereby the heat from within the aforesaid chamber may be rapidly drawn off and also to present a maximum surface area of the metallic material, forming said socket member, to the surrounding air which hence affords a maximum rate of cooling for the same.

The metallic material preferably utilized for the aforesaid socket member 15 is of such characteristics as to enable the same to be readily flexible transversely of its longitudinal axis thereby permitting its substantially easy attachment to a persons Wearing apparel as will be hereinafter apparent.

The end convolution on the conical shaped portion 17 of the socket member 15 may also be integrally provided with an additional convolution placed over the former in such manner as to form a flange 21, which prevents the belt or other wearing apparel from sliding along the socket member 15 and become disassociated therefrom, and also to provide a suitable protuberance to which leverage may be readily applied to bend or flex the socket member 15 and thereby affect its easy disposition onto said wearing apparel.

The convolutions of the socket member 15 are preferably of substantially the same pitch as the convolutions of the body portion 11 of the clip part 10 such that said socket member may be threadably disposed within said clip body portion, as is seen in Figs. 3 and 4, to thus form the integral cigarette extinguisher of the present invention.

The cigarette extinguisher, as just described, rnay be disposed on the trouser belt 14 as shown in Fig. 1, or

attached to pocket material 18 on the wearing apparel of a user as shown in Fig. 6 by grasping the flange 21 on the free end of the socket member 15 and flexing the latter to a position as is seen in Fig. 5. With the socket member thus conditioned, the wearing apparel may then be easily inserted between the same and the legs of the aforesaid clip part 10, and thereafter slide downwardly over the same such that the struck-up ends 13 when utilized with a belt project around the bottom edge to hold the cigarette extinguisher securely in place. In a like manner when said extinguisher is attached to a shirt pocket or the like as seen in Fig. 6, the flexibility of the socket part enables the same, when inserted as previously described, to return to its normal non-flexed position and thus bind the clothing material between it and the legs of the clip part 10.

Thereafter, when the wearer desires to extinguish a cigarette, cigar or like article, he inserts the lighted end of the same into the extinguishing chamber 19 of the socket member 15. Partially due to the high heat conductive characteristic of the metallic material forming the aforesaid socket member 15, and partially because of the high concentration of metal closely surrounding the said article, the heat coincident with said inserted end of the said article is rapidly drawn away from the combustible material of the latter, whereby said lighted end is quickly extinguished. In actual use, an average cigarette has been completely extinguished in this manner within approximately five seconds.

Having thus described a preferred embodiment of cigarette extignuisher of the present invention, it is realized that additional changes, modifications and arrangements of parts may be made thereto without departing from the concepts of this invention as are defined in the claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A device for extinguishing the lighted end of a cigarette, comprising a helical wire body having a cylindrical upper end portion and a tapering lower end defining a socket, and a supporting clip for said body having a helical cylindrical part, said body and clip helices having the same pitch, the internal diameter of the clip helix being slightly larger than the external diameter of the cylindrical portion of said body whereby said clip helix is threadable over one end of said body.

2. A device for extinguishing the lighted end of a cigarette, comprising a helical wire body having a cylindrical upper end portion and a tapering lower end, a supporting clip for said body having a helical Wire cylindrical part, said body and clip helices having the same pitch, the internal diameter of the clip helix being slightly larger than the external diameter of the cylindrical portion of said body whereby said clip helix is thrcadable over the upper end of said body, and said body being flexible about its tapering end transversely of the axis thereof as to permit the entry of a supporting article between said body and said clip.

3. A device for extinguishing the lighted end of a cigarette, comprising a helical wire body having a cylindrical upper end portion and a tapering lower end, a

supporting clip for said body having a helical wire cylindrical part, said body and clip helices having the same pitch, the internal diameter of the clip helix being slightly larger than the external diameter of the cylindrical portion of said body whereby said clip helix is thread- :able over the upper end of said body, said clip having leg means connected with said cylindrical part and extending outwardly therefrom, and said body being flexible about its tapering end as to permit the entry of a supporting article between said body and said arm means.

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